# How to check what telescopes were looking at a certain portion of sky at a particular time?

I have some data that I collected from observations at a specific RA, DEC and I am trying to figure out what telescope surveys were looking at that portion of the sky at that particular time? I am currently trying to use NAVO's python notebooks to query databases but I'm struggling.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

The areas of the sky covered by the major Near Earth Object (NEO) surveys are reported to the Minor Planet Center. You can plot visualizations of that sky coverage data using the sky coverage form where you can filter by depth, date and survey. The raw data is available, after the surveys give permission for it to be released, from the raw data page. This provides a download link to a tarball of all the pointing data so far, broken down by survey site and then a file per night. The description of the pointing fields is also shown on that page; hopefully it shouldn't be too hard to use a combination of e.g. astroPy's Table and 'SkyCoord` to read and parse the data.